quail

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

quails

V_ing/Gerund

quailing

V_ed/pp

quailedqueal

1.
(intransitive)To waste away; to fade, to wither.
2.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone).
To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.
3.
(intransitive)To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
4.
(intransitive)Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
5.
(obsolete)To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

quailsquail

1.
(countable, uncountable)Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
2.
(uncountable)The meat from this bird eaten as food.
3.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A prostitute.

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unquailedquailinglyunquailing partridge bevy

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English quaylen, from Middle Dutch queilen, quēlen, from *quelan, from *kwelan, from Proto-Germanic *kwelaną (to suffer). queal.